by Sarah Padbury Posted 2/04/16, 11:47 am

Six weeks after they declared his mother brain dead, Canadian doctors delivered Iver Cohen Benson on Saturday, pronouncing the 28-week preemie healthy and strong. The birth is a medical rarity but proves babies can survive in the womb even if their mothers have to be kept alive on life support.

Parental Rights

by Sarah Padbury Posted 1/21/16, 03:00 pm

When Marius and Ruth Bodnariu sent their daughters off to school one day last fall, they had no idea they would not come home. And they certainly never imagined their three sons would also be gone before the next sundown—all five children seized by the Norwegian government because of their parents’ Christian beliefs.

Tens of thousands of citizens across the globe have joined in protesting the Norwegian Child Welfare Agency’s seizure of the children after a school principal reported their parents for “indoctrinating” their children.

Transgenderism

by Sarah Padbury Posted 1/14/16, 12:20 pm

At the end of 2015, two human rights commissions over 2,800 miles apart enacted new rules that could be precedent-setting for the gender battle across the nation, including giving people the right to use whichever locker rooms and bathrooms they choose.

Religious Liberty

Sarah Padbury | 1/07/16, 03:55 pm

A district court judge denied the City of Atlanta’s request to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against it in early 2015 by former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed fired the decorated employee after learning Cochran self-published a men’s devotional that presented a biblical view of sexuality.

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| Jerry Falwell Jr.’s suggestion to get concealed-carry permits is not a bad idea, some students say

Sarah Padbury | 12/08/15, 11:00 am

When Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. publicly encouraged students to carry concealed weapons as a means to fight off extremists during mass shootings like the one in California last week, pundits labeled him an extremist, too. But many college students around the country found his idea worth considering.

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Sarah Padbury | 12/03/15, 10:20 am

While media attention has shifted to another mass shooting, investigators in Colorado Springs, Colo., continue to search for details about what might have motivated the man who killed three people at a Planned Parenthood facility there on Friday. Public records and interviews with people who knew the accused shooter reveal a disturbing pattern: Robert Lewis Dear had a history of violence and claimed to be a once-saved-always-saved Christian who could do whatever he wanted.

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Lynde Langdon & Sarah Padbury | 11/28/15, 09:00 pm

UPDATE: While police have not released an official motive in a shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday, Mayor John Suthers said the public can “make inferences from where it took place.”

Sarah Padbury | 11/28/15, 12:25 pm

As police investigate the motive of the shooter at a Colorado Springs, Colo., Planned Parenthood facility Friday, they are crediting the bravery of local officers for ending the standoff before it became much worse.

After a five-hour confrontation with police that left three people dead and nine wounded, the lone shooter suddenly gave himself up and was taken into police custody.

Officials identified the suspect as Robert Dear, 57, who is being held without bond.

Religious Liberty

Sarah Padbury | 11/24/15, 04:00 pm

Officials at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Va., sent an email to employees last week banning Christmas trees in public areas, only to quickly reverse their decision after a backlash from veterans and employees.